In a message dated 3/23/05 4:26:42 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Please forward > > An Evening with Amy Goodman > > Joined by Javier Cosou, brother of Spanish Journalist killed at the > Palestine Hotel in Iraq > > WHEN: 7 -10 PM â Thursday, March 31, 2005 > > In The Exception to the Rulers, internationally acclaimed host of Democracy > Now, award-winning journalist Amy Goodman, with the aid of her brother David > Goodman, exposes the lies, corruption, and crimes of the power elite. An > elite that is bolstered by large media conglomerates. > > Special Guest: Javier Couso, brother of Jose Couso, the Spanish cameraman > killed when a US military tank fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad nearly > two years ago, who is in the United States to call for an independent > investigation into the death of his brother and the prosecution of those > responsible. > > Copies of Goodman's the newly released paperback edition of The Exception To > The Rulers will be available with a book signing to follow. > > WHERE: Immanuel Presbyterian Church3300 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles > (S.W. corner of Wilshire & Berendo-Parking on the street and at UTLA parking > structure north of Wilshire off Berendo.) > > Pre-event Dinner 5:30pm: $50 Donation and free copy of book. > > General Admission Tickets: > $10.00 Donation at Door > > No one turned away for lack of funds. > > For More Information: Call KPFK at (818) 985-2711 Ext. 214 > > Democracy Now! is a daily radio and TV news program on over 300 stations, > pioneering the largest community media collaboration in the US. > > In Los Angeles, Democracy Now! can be heard on KPFK 90.7 FM M-F at 6 AM > repeated at 9 AM . Also seen on satellite TV - Link TV, channel 375 Direct > TV > and channel 9410 DISH network M-F: 8AM, 3PM EST Free Speech TV, channel 9415 > Dish Network M-F: 5 AM, 9 AM, 4 PM and 9 PM PST. > > ************************ > > TRANSCRIPT FROM SHOW -TO WATCH/LISTEN GO TO: > > http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/23/1455244 > > Democracy Now! > > Brother of Slain Journalist Jose Couso Calls for Prosecution of Those > Responsible for U.S. Attack on Palestine Hotel > > Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005 > > We speak with Jose Couso's brother, Javier, who is in the United States to > call for an independent investigation into the death of his brother and the > prosecution of those responsible. [includes rush transcript] > > Since the beginning of the invasion, over three dozen journalists have been > killed in Iraq. It remains one of the deadliest conflicts for journalists in > recent history. > > â Javier Couso, brother of Jose Couso. For more information go > to<A HREF="http://josecouso.info/";> > JoseCouso.info</A>. > > > AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to Jose Couso's brother, Javier, in the United > States to call for an independent investigation into the death of his brother > and > the prosecution of those responsible. I asked him to talk about the comments > of the tank commander, Sergeant Shawn Gibson on the documentary. Gibson is > the U.S. soldier who pulled the trigger that killed Jose Couso. Heâs > translated by James Hollander. > > JAVIER COUSO: [translated] I think heâs lying, because of all of the proof, > because of the evidence that we have, that we know of: Recordings, the > testimony of hundreds of witnesses, of military experts who make it very > clear that > if you are exposed to an enemy attack, you would never have a tank on the > bridge, you know, just sort of sitting there. Ten minutes that the main gun > of > the tank was aiming at the Hotel Palestine. There was a heat round from the > tank. It was a high explosive, high power explosive used called âheat.â > We > have actually been able to gain a copy of the manual of urban combat of the > U.S. Army. They had to get information â they had to ask for information > from > the G2, which is the operations section, and G3, which is information > sections. > And they knew. They knew that the Hotel Palestine was a civilian building. > They received authorization from the head of the Third Infantry Division, > General Buford Blount, who also knew that the Hotel Palestine was a civilian > target and the Hotel Palestine had all of these journalists. > > AMY GOODMAN: So you're calling for the prosecution of those in the military? > Who? Of who? > > JAVIER COUSO: [translated] The General of the Third Infantry Division, > Buford Blount, Captain Philip Wolford, Lieutenant Colonel Philip DeCamp, and > Sergeant Shawn Gibson. According to the Code of Military Justice, orders to > attack > civilians or journalists -- journalists are civilians -- can be disobeyed. > The head of the division, the Third Infantry Division, is either a madman or > heâs simply a criminal, war criminal. > > AMY GOODMAN: And what has the Spanish government responded to this demand? > What has the U.S. government responded? > > JAVIER COUSO: [translated] The attitude, as Olga said before, because of the > mobilization that we have had, the movement that we have had, the attitude > has changed. What we asked the Spanish government to do was exactly what the > Ukrainian government had done in the case of Taras Protsyuk, who was a > Reuters > journalist who was killed. We had to wait 22 months so that they would > recognize the dignity of my brother as a worker, as a media worker. At a > diplomatic level, there was request for explanations between, well, minister > to > minister, say, from the foreign minister â the Spanish foreign minister -- > to > Secretary of State Colin Powell, at the time. Right, but Powell, all he did > was > simply pass along the buck to the report that was -- that had been made by > the > internal army report. In the last two weeks we have raised the bar of our > demands. We have gone to the European Parliament. We met with all of the > political groups present in the Parliament from right to left, every single > one. We > were received by both the President and the Vice President of the European > Parliament. And they issued an institutional statement supporting our > struggle > for justice. On the 13th of April, they're going to debate this in the > European Parliament. Really, the focus on the difference between the case of > Giuliana Sgrena, the Italian journalist who was attacked a few weeks ago and > the > case of the attack on the Hotel Palestine and Jose Couso, why is there going > to > be a serious investigation apparently into the attack on the Italian > journalist but not into the Hotel Palestine? We're working with the Human > Rights > Commission of the European Parliament on a resolution that would demand > explanations from the government of the United States, which would deal with > all > kinds of attacks on journalists, not only the attacks like the Hotel > Palestine or > the one on Giuliana Sgrena, but also journalists who have been kidnapped, > because my impression both having been in Iraq and also outside Iraq is that > independent journalism is under threat, is that there have been more than 40 > journalists who have been killed in Iraq without any investigation. They're > being kidnapped by dark forces whose whereabouts in that character were don't > know. If we don't stop this among -- between all of us, with all of us, that > is, families, journalists, media organizations, then the only information > we'll > receive about war will be from embedded journalists or from the military > itself. > > > AMY GOODMAN: Javier Couso, the brother of Jose Couso, who died on April 8, > 2003, when the U.S. military attacked the Palestine Hotel. Since the > beginning > of the invasion, over three dozen journalists have been killed in Iraq; > remains one of the deadliest conflicts for journalists in recent history. > Tonight, Javier Couso will be screening the full documentary, Hotel > Palestine: > Killing the Witness, here in New York at the Unitarian Church of All Souls on > Lexington and 79th. He will also be joining us for our Un-Embed the Media > tour > that we kick off next week. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. 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